The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-09-24
SHOULD NOT AGREE.
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have just rvAd magazine article iu which the writer stoutiy contends that no man and woman should over marry unless there is Il practical uuanimity between them on all rc- ligious, political or general subjects. No UniverSalist should ever marry ;he beautiful Baptist whom lie has tondly learned to think about no Re publican. however severely he may hc smitten. should wed the lovely Mug wump of his heart
 Now all this l do most potcntl, disbelieve, Any young lady should be suspicious or young man who deliberately sets about in search of wife who will alwHys agrcc with him. He Is after either slave or an idiot :, and il he evinces any matrimonial bias tawanl her, she may know that he practically regards her either as the one or the other, or course, it a young lady wishes to marry man under such conditions. it k mol mN place to offer any objections. Let peace ga with her, Rut. fortunately, most sensible girls do object, most emphaticallN. Any man who respects his wife, and honors her indiN duality, will expect tlat she N III disagree with him OH many vital questions, even to the points of hcrcsN and low her all the better for it. What an existence of dead. colorlcss mcdiocritV Is n mar ricd life in which husband and wiie arc perfectly agreed on evcrN thing
 They ought to pray that soIuo angel of discord might come down and trouble the sluggish waters of their existence. They are bccalmod in u sea of rvcrlast- ing quiet, without Il gale or zephyr to break the dead monutony of their social, intellectual ar moral imhecility
 X little intellectual friction In fam. fly k like ii tunic Did you ever see wife who always agreed With her hu.-
 Mnd2 A las they are too lin,ner,as , The loyal creatures believe they arr doing Gods duty but they are really committing slow intellectual suicide They degenerate into mere dish wash ing automatons. Such one is ho In- tcllectual companion for her husband. Sine either degcneatcs into mere domestic pie-and- pudding inspector, or else becomes a learned and volublc historian of ncighborhood gossip.
 "But," the frightened critic will say, "if there k marked divergence of opinion between husband and wife. will IL not lead t0 disng rccablc family spats!" Is, then, a family spat so very terrible? "I have lived with my wife twenty years" heard man sal the other day, "and no matter of differ replied (silcntly, moi out loud, oi coursc), "indccd, which one of you k the iiiot?" No two persons who have fallen into the habit of thinking can, by any possibility, live together twenty years with no manner of dis puic ever coming between them. When you hear "a man boosting of such an achievement you may know that either he or his wife have not contracted the above mentioned habit.
 "But," our frightened critic again intcrposes, "what will become of the children when inc husband and wife arc radically divergent In their vicwsy" Children are very Initiative, dear critic. If they observe that their parents are in the habit of individual indepcnd- cncc of thought, they may grow up and become original thinkers them selves "liui wlll !t net break t.ia dear, good Baptist mothers heart to sec her boy growing up Universal ist!" Well, hardly, after she has had thirty years to discover what loyal. unseiiish, manly man his Universalist father is. She hated the very name of Univermlist when she married her husband, but she has learned the truth, that all we poor bigotnd souls learn sooBcr or later, that man Is usually much better than his label. So she will not care very much for her boys labcls. But she does hope he will be as good AS his father has been.
 Did you ever notice the chiidrcn of families in which tho husband and wife are fully agreed on all subjectsl Most int0lerant partisans and bigots iu all the world. They have become so used to one sided opinions that they can see no possibility of truth In anything outside their old, ancestral and inherited beliefs. They learn all their father and mother have io tcil them, and, by no possibility, can they ever learn anything afterwards. What n salutary iDfinence few family spats between their fathers and mothers might have bad on such people 1 saw man np in New Hampshire, last summer, who said "I Rliey. the sun moves roun' the earth ar my father an mother blieyed ~ afore me" What A blessing to him would have been little diversity of astro- nomicaI opinion in his pafernal home.
 No, my friend, If you are Bourbon